Mega-Octane: End of the road for you, Optimus Prime. Decepticons, combiner mode!

Commandos: Yessir!

Ruination: Ruination awakens!

Optimus: Transform! Now we’ll see what you’re made of.

Scourge: We want those O-Parts, Prime.

Optimus: Back off, Scourge. This is an emergency. Human lives are at stake. Get out of my way.

Scourge: Very touching. Here is my answer. Now!

[End of clip]

Koji: Whoa! Ruination really clobbered you that time.

Optimus: He sure did, Koji. Ruination is a powerful adversary.

T-AI: These guys have been our enemies for so long it’s hard to imagine they were once Autobots.

Optimus: Until their sparks were warped by Megatron.

T-AI: If only we found them sooner.

Koji: We couldn’t have. We didn’t even know they were on Earth until we decoded Dad’s microchip, but by then Megatron had already found their spaceship.

Optimus: They were defenseless protoforms still in their stasis pods.

[“The Decepticons”]

Optimus: Sounds like someone got here before we did.

X-Brawn: Someone’s digging a mighty big hole. Well I’ll be hornswaggled. It’s a spaceship, all right, and it’s from Cybertron.

T-AI (out of clip): But the real surprise came later, when you found out what was inside.

Optimus: There are Transformers in that ship! And it looks like their pods are still intact! We’ve got to get the ship back to headquarters immediately.

Megatron: An excellent idea, Optimus. You and the Autobots are welcome to do whatever you wish with that spacecraft. But the Autobot crew members, our part of the deal, they’re mine now!

X-Brawn: Forget it, Megatron.

Megatron: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Sideburn: The pods!

Megatron: Don’t worry, Autobots. Be assured you’ll be seeing your friends again very soon… At the other end of a laser beam! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

[Clip pauses]

Optimus: Letting Megatron kidnap those protoforms was the greatest blunder I ever made.

T-AI: There was no way you could have stopped them, Optimus. And by the time you caught up with him on that army base, he was already carrying out his plan.

Optimus: The dark day indeed.

[Transition]

[Clip resumes]

Megatron: Our protoforms will scan the most powerful vehicles, and within a few minutes, become the mightiest combat force this planet has ever known! Take the pods to the army base and begin the scanning process. Protoform, scan that vehicle.

My name is Optimus Prime. I’m the leader of our kind here on Earth. And in their name, allow me to welcome you to your new home.

Mega-Octane: No thanks.

Optimus: What has Megatron done to you?!

Megatron: Ha, ha, ha! You’re wasting your breath, Optimus. He won’t listen to you. He’s a Decepticon now and loyal only to me and very soon, now, the others will join him! Their firepower combined with my leadership will make the Decepticons unstoppable!

Optimus: You fiend! It’s showtime, guys. We’ve got to stop them now, before they all become Decepticons.

Autobot Bros: Right!

Mega-Octane: Think again, Autobots!

Optimus: Get back!

Mega-Octane: I’ll hold them off. Take the pods to the vehicles and begin scanning.

Sky-Byte: Begin scanning!

Slapper: That tank will make a great Decepticon.

Mega-Octane: Your turn, Dork Scream!

Dark Scream: That helicopter’s perfect!

Optimus: Power Stream!

Megatron: A space shuttle Decepticon… Well done. Under my leadership, he will become a mighty warrior!

Mega-Octane: Decepticons, transform!

Optimus: There’s only one pod left!

X-Brawn: They’ve got too much fire power, Optimus. We’d never get to it in time.

Megatron: Ha, ha, ha, ha. So true! And soon the last of your fellow Autobots will answer only to me!

Kelly: I’m getting out of here as fast as I can. I didn’t go to truck driving school for nothing, you know!

Prowl: That tanker is the one they use to re-fuel the space shuttle. It’s loaded with ten thousand gallons of rocket fuel.

Megatron: The energy in that rocket fuel will make him the most powerful Decepticon of them all! Behold… Your mightiest enemy is about to take form!

Sideburn: Optimus, that tanker truck is outta control!

Optimus: I’m on it!

Megatron: Thanks to you I can now begin scanning that tanker! Now witness the genesis of your destruction.

Scourge: Scourge, transform!

Megatron: You are infused with my spark, but also that of Optimus. Are you Decepticon or are you Autobot?

Scourge: I have only one purpose, to serve Megatron. Decepticons, it is time to prepare for combat. Transform!

Commandos: Yessir!

Optimus: Get ready.

Scourge: Decepticons, switch to maximum fire power!

Megatron: Scourge, that’s enough. You’ve just come online. You’re not at full strength. You can finish them off at another time.

Scourge: Understood. Decepticons, follow me!

[End of clip]

Optimus: That’s enough, T-AI. We have a lot to look at.

T-AI: But why?

Optimus: The best way to prepare for what the Decepticons might do in the future is to understand how they think, by examining what they’ve done in the past.

T-AI: You mean like the time they almost wrecked the space bridge?

Optimus: Yes, and almost succeeded in turning us against one another.

[Commercial]

Optimus: This is our most important asset, the global space bridge.

Koji: It’s given the Autobots a big advantage. Like the time the Decepticons ambushed X-Brawn.

T-AI: He barely managed to escape.

Optimus: It was a shrewd plan. Scourge is very clever at luring us into his traps.

Koji: That’s for sure. But his cleverest plan was when he sabotaged the space bridge.

T-AI: When the bridge started to malfunction, none of us could figure out what had gone wrong.

Optimus: And we might not have, had Wedge not have been so persistent.

T-AI: I’ve uploaded that sequence from the archives.

Optimus: Good. Let’s start with the ambush.

T-AI: It’s coming up on the monitor now.

Optimus: All right. Let’s have a look.

[“Four Transformers”]

X-Brawn: Whoa, Nellie! They’re on me like an Insecticon on a power core. I gotta get outta here.

Rollbar: Well as long as they have that technology, they’ll always defeat us!

Armorhide: There’s gotta be some way we can go in there and blast that space bridge apart. Then they can’t use it against us anymore.

Mega-Octane: We’d be better off if we could figure out how those tunnels work. Then we can use them for our own purposes.

Ro-Tor: Must be nice to just duck into a tunnel to get away, and come out who knows where!

Armorhide: I still say we should blow it up!

Mega-Octane: Hold on. Maybe we can disable it.

Scourge: Perhaps we could…

[Transition]

Grimlock: Now let’s see… According to T-AI’s power flow schematic, the co-ordinates for the new arctic link should be housed in terminal 10. Reprogramming coaxial, engage. Data recorded and synchronized. Installation complete.

Scourge: It’s in there.

Mega-Octane: What is this place?

Scourge: Just what we’ve been looking for.

Rollbar: Well, that’s one way to get in! I, myself, would have used the door.